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... what? I did have an intention, the mod killed that intention.

I had enjoyed the other WSB discord very much, and was looking forward to a new server I'd enjoy and because of a jackass mod who say nig*er a lot I couldn't enjoy that.

So a very proportional response is to report the server they moderate!

I didn't lie, I didn't misconstrue anything, I said "this server has a moderator that spams nig*er very casually"

Are you defending that? Or blaming me for their behavior? Or faulting me for not liking that? Which is it?

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Because make no mistake, if this wasn't an admin level mod saying this I wouldn't report them. I even get the WSB "everyone is a mod" meme. And I get moderation is tough, things slip, that's life.

But when your admin says nig*er hundreds of times for fun... you're crossing a line.
Another is aerospace. One of SpaceX's original selling points was a clearly-advertised price.
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I’ve been reading about the GLX for 20 years and it’s been bandied about for as many as 50 years now. It’s amazing that it may finally actually happen this year. The bike path is a great example of death by a thousand cuts. MBTA said yes to that and apparently that gave them the juice to say no to a couple more stations further down the line which certainly would have provided useful service to probably a thousand more passengers per day.
Tesla S is first production car ever to achieve 0 to 60 mph in less than 2 seconds
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C++ et al's "this" keyword seems perfectly reasonable to me--the whole point of being a member method is that you have some sort of implicit state. Otherwise, why not just make them top-level functions, if you have to take the object as a parameter anyway?
Even if you think a stock should be worthless, it may make sense to hold it, even if eventually it will become worthless. The sale value may be zero, but as long as people are making shorts, the use value is the fee you can charge for lending them out. (And since it has a use value to make more profit, the sale value isn't exactly zero, but is more related to its use value than anything about the underlying product being securitized.)

Being able to sell it on is one exit from this gamble; but also, simply having accrued more lending fees (over time) than the share cost to acquire. Mostly, it's some combination of the two.
They will make one phone call to the CEO saying they are opening an investigation that Reddit is facilitating and unlicensed forum for providing investment advice, and that to limit potential liability, the SEC is recommending that Reddit close the sub in question.

Reddit's one lawyer will sit with the CEO, and they will have a 4 second conversation "Yeah, we're not sticking our neck out for those self-proclaimed retards.".

...and that's it. Reddit has banned subs for far far less.
> This entire system is rigged to also grow the number of hospitals/ the overall size of healthcare in america.

If this were the case, I wouldn’t be as opposed to it.
> Without the rule they don't even need to try to manipulate the books

Screwing with cost plus doesn't require manipulating books. If you're passing on your costs, you have no incentive to find cheaper suppliers. Need to hire a bunch of people? Meh. Guy didn't show up to work for two weeks? Not your payroll, really.

Enabling new entrants where possible, and regulating where not, is a simpler and more-scalable solution. Pharmaceuticals manufacturing seems to be light on the former.
Something that doesn't make sense to me, the images I have seen on internet show that Melvin Capital used PUTs to short GME. Those options may have become worthless by now, but they don't seem to be worth 2.5 or 3 billion dollars. Looks like Melvin Capital's downside was limited, or am I missing something?
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The real issue is WSB has been temporarily shut. We are on our way to full blown communism.
Exon 101 is a political argument not a scientific one. There are more than 9 schools of economics all disagreeing with each other. Whatever Economic 101 you are taught depends on your country/teacher/power structure etc.
How do you know the redditor is a woman?
> Which probably explains why folks are bringing up his love life.

yep - people here wants those who are virtuous to be more successful than those who aren't. 'cept in real life, there's no correlation, and logically there wouldn't be. In fact, the more of an asshole you are, the more likely you'd be able to take advantage of people to succeed.
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I understand how this short sale "chaining" can result in a stock being over 100% shorted without any illegal naked short selling taking place, but why wouldn't this chaining not result in a short squeeze and therefore bid up the price?

I'll walk through an example and maybe someone can point out what I missed.

Let's say we have a market for some stock. There are only 5 traders (Alice, Bob, Chuck, Dave, Eli) and 100 shares that are all owned by Alice.
Bob borrows all 100 shares from Alice and sells them to Chuck.
Dave borrows the 100 shares from Chuck and sells them to Eli.
Thus, Alice and Chuck are each owed 100 shares, Bob and Dave are in debt for 100 shares, and Eli owns the 100 shares.

Thus, Bob and Dave must now compete for the 100 shares owned by Eli, which then drives up the price.

I don't know how the synthetic long shares mentioned fit into this.
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it would be nice, and hopefully they go overboard and get enough people off of their platforms to change the tide
If you endlessly come up with more and more excuses I'm sure you'll eventually land on needing another earth. What can you do if a meteor hits? What then! Clearly it is oppressive because there is no other earth for me to back up my beliefs and oppress others!

Ultimately you can only do what you can. But let's be honest, if you can't lift a finger to install server hardware and networking switches, how on earth can you possibly advocate for change in our society?

> Your multiple personalities are seeking vengeance on free speech because.. you wanted self hosted hardware??

Please remember HN etiquette.

You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware. Parlor complained but removed left wing content 24/7 - no one complained about "free speech" then. Make it make sense instead of being obvious political pandering.
The movie rights alone are probably worth several hundred thousand already
> that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life

Isn’t that what people are also basically saying of Twitter. And Facebook. And ...?
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This article has a lot of good points. I went to my county's covid page to sign up for the vaccine wait list. It could have been one page of about 10 questions and radio button (and other basic controls) and a submit button. But nope, it had 500k of god knows what javascript being downloaded for transitions and fancy buttons and 5 pages of really nice looking questions. All I wanted to do was register for a wait list! Imagine older people (who I'm all have surely filled out simple online forms) with older computers going through this stuff. Or someone who is blind. It's ridiculous.
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I don't believe their excuse for one second.

"Hate speech" is a leftist boogeyman.
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Inclement weather would obstruct the vision of the A-10 pilots too. Today's CAS is largely a forward observer calling in a grid/GPS coordinate or lasing a target.
Not really defending anything here. Just saying that producing drugs in the US costs more than other places. Unless they are buying tablets from a manufacturer that are already FDA approved, they still have to prove the similarity of their generic product to the FDA - the product has to provably be what it is labeled to be.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news-events-human-drugs/generic-dr...

If you take Cost Plus at its word:

"We will let everyone know what it costs to manufacture, distribute, and market our drugs to pharmacies. We add a flat 15% margin to get our wholesale prices. This makes sure we remain viable and profitable. There are no hidden costs, no middlemen, no rebates only available to insurance companies. Everybody gets the same low price for every drug we make."

I guess we'll get to see where the price comes from.
Thanks for this counterpoint.
It seems somewhat unlikely that they were short, but they are the parties who I would generally expect to want increased regulation. Hedge funds on the other hand are probably delighted as a whole that there are lots of retail investors throwing money around in interesting ways - they generally excel in taking money from people doing that.
> We have ~10x the population of Canada, and California alone could use up all of Canada's medicines. Not sure Canada would go for it.

Couldn't Canadian drug companies increase supply if the demand was there? In the short term, sure, they would not be able to handle our level of demand, but unless there's some constraint I'm not aware of they could always just scale up and make more animal insulin or whatever.
> I probably should have spelt out that I'm by-and-large talking about application development

I was as well. My point is just that not everyone works on the same things or has the same resources, and there is no global optimum. I'm generally in the “more functions, fewer classes, minimize inheritance” camp personally but the most important underlying principal is remembering that methodology is a tool which is supposed to help, not hinder, and adjusting based on local conditions.

Part of the value an experienced developer brings should be having a good sense for when a particular approach is a good fit for the problem at hand and being willing to say that whatever you're doing needs changes. This can be tricky because methodologies often have a quasi religious aspect where people take the decisions very personally but the worst project outcomes I've seen have been from cases where people treated the status quo as holy writ and refused to consider how problems could be avoided or transformed by picking something different.
They appear to be using Pfizer in at least some locations in Illinois, FWIW.
Has anyone had any good team bonding activities during Covid?
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They don’t make the drugs in Canada. They buy them in the open market, likely from us.
Particleboard is held together with glue, and the paint and glues probably aren't the best thing to breathe when they burn.
I'm not convinced other manufacturers will catch up. As other users in the thread have noted, the frustrations of non-tesla chargers range to every extreme: needing to set up an account, and connect a credit card; stuck waiting for that credit card to authorize; the charger not communicating properly with the vehicle; not having internet connectivity to get the charger to activate--the issues are endless.

I have never had an issue with a Tesla supercharger, ever, and that's the bar I expect out of third party chargers.

All that said, I WHOLLY agree that it would be markedly more beneficial to all if the chargers were standardized, and you could charge (e.g.) non-Tesla vehicles on Tesla chargers. That would be maximally ideal--but I can't fault Tesla for things like their plugs being different when they had to forge the way.
Ahhh, yeah - you're right. I've got it back to front there.

In my defence it's been a long time singe they've been allowed to race motorcycles there. At least 20 years. And now you mention it I do recall bikes seizing at the end of pit straight, right down the bottom of the hill.
> a public-backed safety net.

there is no safety net for hedge funds (or indeed, any investment company that's not a proper deposit taking bank). The GFC was an anomaly - and banks got bailed out for taking on risks that they shouldn't have been (and only some - lehmens got owned and they didn't get bailed out). The bailouts were more about stablizing rather than saving the gov't buddies, despite what the conspiracy narrative likes to make (of course, it _did_ save the banks, so believe what you will).
You can also play with the data directly using open source projects like nightscout. I used that to convert a days worth of glucose data into sound :) https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-sound/
Plus, $750 per month is not that expensive for healthcare (unfortunately). My wife was paying $600 per month under the ACA and was completely healthy.

Another point is that the people with lower incomes qualify for subsidies under the ACA.
I think the internet being still in it's infancy essentially has allowed us to not define monopolies narrowly enough. For example, it seems obvious to people when a monopoly exists on a railroad, cars, or planes because they are distinct. However if they were judged the way the technology industry is currently, you would just say they are all travel and so no monopoly exists. I think the technology companies will be in for a very rude awakening when these niches are realized by politicians. It will probably be when young enough to really know the niches in the internet grow old enough to become politicians. The current politicians are just beginning to get a grasp on this so it's going to be some time.
> Someone has to learn compiler engineering and then design and implement a 'safe' ABI. Unlike learning Rust, this is probably worthy of a research paper.

Yes, all good points. What I'm getting at is that it seems like nobody has yet re-written sudo in this safe way. And it's not just a matter of re-writing it. If (when) someone comes along with this re-write there's "if this person goes away, will we find someone else to maintain it?" and all those other very conservative social forces at play.

I think any new programming language community has these sorts of adoption hurdles to face. And I'm sure the rust community is working hard to build up that pool of developers and I think that's all really positive so I don't want to sound like I'm subtracting from it at all. I'm just also an interested spectator of PL and systems programming research/new directions :)

> If you use unsafe, then you take some of the responsibility for maintaining memory safety. However, you can audit the unsafe parts of the code, and it will compose with the compiler-provided guarantees for the rest of the code. Besides, one can easily avoid unsafe code for safety-critical tools like these.

Thanks, yep. That's why I think that generally Rust is a good idea, and rewriting the TCB in it is a worthwhile project. In regards to safety it looks like a step in the right direction. We're just quibbling about the cost/benefit analysis of how big of a step it is compared to above-mentioned issues that all new programming languages face. Personally, I've no doubt that even with all that factored in, it's still a net positive.

> Miri does not support most interaction with the outside world [1]. It is focused more on detecting UB in unsafe code when it is exercised by tests, than on having your code running in production through Miri. Moreover, I wouldn't call a thousand-fold slowdown [2] "relatively lightweight"

Thanks for the clarifications, you're definitely more up to speed on that project than I am! But yeah, what I meant there was not that the implementation of miri was something to use as-is, more that it's an interesting direction in PL/systems programming research (imo). And some of the ideas there, especially where runtime cost _in principle_ can be made to be relatively lightweight are interesting. I've seen some other research where C implementations with bounds-checking have been implemented part-statically and where the remaining checks are done at run-time with fat-pointers.

OK, bounds checking isn't memory safety, but the paper was a while ago. Maybe it was this one https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ryap/Projects/LowFat/ ?

So I mean, it sounds like you might be able to get to a place where you can use some bits of unsafe in rust, but maybe the program overall could still be safe because the compiler can have a mode where run-time checks (which can be statically eliminated in a lot of cases) are included.

But hey, I'm just a relatively amateur outside-observer of all this, maybe that's a totally impossible pipe dream? :)
Maybe GameStop could leverage its position and “acquire” something with actual value, something private looking to go public. Afterwards the result would be worth more than GME did when this started?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/29/vmware-c...
Isn't this complicated a bit by the way shorts work? Like when you buy $n of stock, it is impossible to lose more than $n. But with shorting you could lose unpredictable amounts if shit hits the fan. I agree it's not a good look for a hedge fund to have put themselves in this position, but I think it was more about believing they couldn't lose so extraordinarily badly, not that they couldn't lose at all.
I'm sure this will be buried etc, but just something to pass on. I spend a lot of time in small planes doing aerial surveying work with equipment I make. The pilot i've flown with the most spent his whole career flying and training others to fly A-10s. We had so much time (100's of hours) just sitting in a cessna together I got to ask tons of questions and hear lots of stories.

One of my favourites was just peacetime stuff when they flew non-stop from their base in Germany back to the US, refueling on the way. Just think about that - you're a pilot used to doing close air support short missions and now you're off on what in only a few decades before would have been an adventure on the scale of the great explorers.

He would regularily comment on how good the missile launch system is... essentially it chose the right time to launch based on the pitch/speed/location etc of the plane. He mentioned it enough times it must have been pretty special.

When I asked him if it was difficult to fly, he said that other jets he flew were more difficult (flame outs etc), but it also wasn't easy.

In 30 years flying them the only missile he ever launched (or maybe only missile of a certain type... not sure), was for training and cost $1m+. Everyone at some point in their training got to fire one at a dummy tank. He said the accuracy was amazing... he hit it bang on - mostly due to the targetting tech he was praising rather than his skill. He did mention that the $1m price tag was misleading because they expire and use missiles which if not used would be scrapped anyway. Or something close to that - this was 4-5 years ago my memory is a little hazy.

And the gun. Well... this guy is a republican voter (which was always funny as I'm way left of Sanders), with a heart of gold but had some interesting theories about the best use of the A10 related to Trumps border wall. He said they do so much shooting out in the desert, they could just relocate all their practice along the border with mexico, not spend anything extra than they are now and no one would dare go near it. I'm not sure how much of that was in jest or how serious he was. Thats abhorrent to me but all good we all get to have our views.

He has a model of an A10 on his desk which was gifted to him when he stopped flying them, and a big picture of himself climbing into one on the wall back when he was lean and handsome and hadn't put on his old-timer weight. My first flight simulator was A-10 on the Commodore 64, and it literally set the path to me ending up working with him.... my interest in aviation, cameras, computers etc. So both that photo and the model on his desk felt really special to me in a way that I can't really explain.

And of course being a nieve computer guy, I had to ask 'the question'. Did he knowingly kill anyone. He didn't answer.
Could the lower air pressure at altitude still end up pushing less fuel in through the jets? It's not obvious to me how this would behave when deviating from normal conditions.
Disgusting but not surprising take from the Nasdaq CEO. A few managers with access to billions are able to coordinate their funds because they own them all, but a diverse mob of retail investors couldn't do this up until now because they're all subject to game-theoretic prisoner's dilemma forces.

It's only because so many people are rallying around the ideological worth of the stock that keeps the price from crashing. As the fad dissipates naturally over time, its ideological worth will decline and bring the price down with it. Time is on the side of the hedge funds.
I'm not sure if you're actually expecting an answer here or just raging, but one reason that Gamestop (and many other stocks) have a fundamental value is because they pay out a dividend to the holder.

For example, if the dividend that was paid out per share of GME on, for example, March 15th, 2019 was $0.38, and you owned 1000 shares (and ~4k investment), then you received a payment of $380. In many companies, these dividend amounts and schedules are extremely predictable.

You can then use that money to buy food, or build a house, if you wanted.

The fundamental value of many stocks is tied to the dividend that it will pay you for owning it. Obviously "growth" stocks (stocks that as designed to increase in value, rather than pay a dividend, because funds are used to buy-back stock instead, thus raising the price) is valued differently, but there is still a fundamental value based on the financial situation of the underlying company.